Spectral narrowing and locking of a vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser using an intracavity volume Bragg grating

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1786-1788

  Giet, Stephanie ^a   Sun, H D ^a   Calvez, S ^a   Dawson, M D ^a   Suomalainen, S ^b   Harkonen A ^b   Guina, M ^b   Okhotnikov, O ^b   Pessa, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diode pumped laser; High power laser; Semiconductor disk laser; Semiconductor laser; Vertical cavity laser; Wavelength stabilization

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MIRRORS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DIODE-PUMPED LASER; HIGH-POWER LASER; SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASER; SURFACE-EMITTING LASER; VERTICAL-CAVITY LASER; VOLUME BRAGG GRATING; WAVELENGTH STABILIZATION;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 33747666997     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.880735     Document Type: Article

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